• Vera Hoden

    Vera Hoden, 90, of Whiting, passed away on Jan. 18, 2015, at home. Mrs. Hoden was born in Freehold Township, where she resided until moving to Crestwood Village in Whiting. She was a telephone operator and receptionist for New Lisbon State School before her retirement. She was also employed as an operator for the New…

  • McCann-Halpin

    MILESTONES Joseph Halpin, Kelly McCann Debra and Michael McCann of Jackson announce the engagement of their daughter, Kelly Lynn McCann, to Joseph Richard Halpin, son of Susan and Robert Halpin of Toms River. Ms. McCann is a graduate of Jackson Memorial High School, Jackson, and Star Career Academy, Brick Township, where she received her degree…

  • ON CAMPUS

    Amber Pratka of Englishtown was named to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester at Caldwell University, Caldwell. Kathleen Arimado of Howell was named to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester at Caldwell University, Caldwell. Brian Kenny of Howell was named to the dean’s list for the 2014 fall semester at Caldwell…

  • Bethel AME Church will host tax preparation site

    FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Ed Horigan saw a need for a tax preparation site in the Freehold area and set about finding one. “You used to be able to get your taxes prepared at the IRS office in Freehold Township, but they no longer do it there,” said Horigan, of Freehold Township. Eventually, Horigan brought together…

  • Foundation reaches goal with ‘ConnectUs!’ effort

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Freehold Township Education Foundation has brought its ConnectUs! campaign to a successful conclusion. The foundation’s effort to raise $250,000 began at the organization’s first Monte Carlo Night in 2012. The goal was to allow each classroom in the Freehold Township K-8 School District to become…

  • Freehold advertises for police director’s post

    By CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer FREEHOLD — Municipal officials are seeking candidates who want to serve in the new position of police director in the Freehold Borough Police Department. An ordinance adopted in 2014 gives the Borough Council the power to hire a civilian police director who will not be a uniformed officer, will…

  • Public given prime time to address school testing

    IN THE NEWS Mark Rosman In recent months, parents in many communities served by Greater Media Newspapers have come before their local school board to comment on the issue of student testing. In broad terms, parents have raised concerns about the number of exams their children are required to take and the amount of classroom…

  • January blahs unleash the beast within

    ARE WE THERE YET Lori Clinch Remember Grumpy? He was the cranky fictional character in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and he surely got a bum rap. Nobody wanted to be around him, and I’m sure the little guy must have found it difficult to simply hang with his peeps. Grumpy saw the negative…

  • Mark Twain, 19th-century techie, sought phonograph to dictate tale

    YOUR TURN DANIEL WEEKS GUEST COLUMN Mark Twain’s novel, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” will be 125 years old this month. Twain wrote it over a three-year period in the late 1880s, just at the time Thomas A. Edison was preparing his new wax-cylinder phonograph for commercial production. Twain thought he might use…

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